Culinary article



(No Model.) A M. J. DBNISQN. CULINARY ARTICLE.

No. 472,527.' Patented Apr. 12, 1892.

um W006 UNITED" STATES PATENT OFFIC MARY J. DENISON, OF JOHNSVILLE, OHIO.

CULINARY ARTICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 472,527, dated April 12, 1892.

Application filed October 29, 1891. Serial No. 410,277. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARY J. DENISON, a citizen of the United States, residing at J ohnsv1lle,in the county of Morrow, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ordinary Articles, of which the following is a specification, reference beng had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in culinary articles; and t has for its objects, among others, to provlde an improved, cheap, and simple oven for use in connection with gas or gasoline stoves, so constructed as to economize space and heat and also provide for the cooking of a variety of different articles of food at one and the same time.

I provide a suitable receptacle without bottom, and within this receptacle provide supports for separate independent removable false bottoms, whereby the inner receptacles may be held independently of each other,

and any one or more may be placed directly upon the said supports or have a false bottom between the same and the stove. The false bottoms are preferably provided with upwardly-extending flanges, which serve to separate the inner receptacles, and also serve as means for the better handling of the bottoms.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear, and the novel features thereof will be specifically defined by the appended claims.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a central vertical section through my improved oven. Fig. 2 is a perspective of the lower portion, with parts broken away. Fig. 3 is a plan with the inner removable receptacles removed.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views in which they occur.

Referring now to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates a preferably rectangular outer case, which may be of any suitable size and material, and provided with suitable handles a. It may be beaded around the lower edge, as seen at a, to strengthen the same, and is provided with a suitable ,cover or lid B, as seen in Fig. 1. This case is without bottom; but around the inner lower edge there are supports for a false bottom or for the bottoms of the inner receptacles. As herein shown, these supports are provided by means of angle-bars around the edges, with their vertical sides secured to the vertical inner sides of the outer case and their horizontal sides extending inward for a sufficient distance to form a sufficiently wide and strong support. Supported upon these bars are the intersecting or crossed T- bars D, which are of sufficient length to have their ends rest upon the supports 0, as shown best in Fig. 2. r

E are separate independent receptacles for food or the like. In the form shown there are provisions for the support of four of such receptacles; but the number may be varied without departing from the essence of the invention. In practice these receptacles may be supported directly upon the supports thus formed, or they may be supported upon false bottoms F, designed to be supported upon the said supports. One or more receptacles may be supported upon the false bot toms and the others directly upon the said supports, according to the degree of heat required. The false bottoms may be provided with a flange 01 upon one or more sides to separate the receptacles, and these flanges may be provided with perforations f, as seen in Fig. 2, to permit of the better circulation of the heated air.

The advantages of the invention are apparent and its manner of use obvious.

I am aware that it is not new to provide cooking apparatus with means for supporting a plurality of vessels, one above the other, and do not seek to cover such construction. I deem it important that the supports be so arranged as to support a plurality of vessels in the same horizontal plane, whereby they may all be subjected to practically the same degree of heat, so that a plurality of articles of food may be cooked, all at the same time and all be done at the same time, ready to serve.

\Vhat I claim as new is false bottoms supported upon the said bars, 1. An oven consisting of a bottomless outer all in the same horizontal plane, substantially case with interior supports and removable as specified. false bottoms having upwardly-extended per- In testimony whereof I affixm y signature in 5 forated flanges in the same horizontal plane, presence of two witnesses.

n k r A MARY J. 1.) ENISON.

n. r n oven OOIlSlSllllg' of an outer bottomless case, anglebars secured to the inner Witnesses: walls thereof at the lower edge, T- bars snp- J. C. LASER, to ported thereomand removable independent HATTIE AULD. 

